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Crabronid^. 



Anacrabro boerhaavice, Ckll. — Mesilla Valley. 



Crabro dilectus,Qxt.%%.,\% recorded by Townsend from the Conti- 

 nental Divide, Tenaja. 



C. packardii, Cress. — Rui.doso, about 6500 ft., July 21, on flowers 

 of Cicuta occidentalis : coll. Townsend. 



C. minimus. Pack., C. cetitralis. Cam., C. ci-7'ans, Fox, C. decorus, 

 Fox, C. salicis, Ckll., and C. abdominaiis, Fox, occur in the Mesilla 

 Valley. The record of C. minimus is based on a c? identified by Fox 

 in 1893, but as the locality is not mentioned in his later revision of 

 Crabro, there may have been some error. C. dhdoniinalis was recog- 

 nized recently by Fox in a specimen taken on Isocoma wrightii at 

 Mesilla Park, Sept. 12. C. decorus I took at Me.silla, May 8, burrow- 

 ing in a sandbank. 



C. errans. Fox, also occurs at Santa Fe', in August. 



C. maculiclypeus, Fox, det. Fox — Santa Fe', July 10. 



Oxybelus quadricolor, Ckll. & Baker, O. trifidus, Ckll & Baker, O. 

 (/uadrinotatus, Say, and var. montanus, Rob., occur at Santa Fe. 



O. heterolepis, Ckll. & Baker, and var. defectus, Ckll. &: Baker, O. 

 packardii, Rob., and O. cor?mtus, Rob., are found at Albuquerque. 



O. sparideus, Ckll., O. subcornutus, Ckll., O. quadricolor, C. & B., 

 O. coloradensis, Baker, O. cornutus, Rob., and O. abdominaiis, Baker, 

 occur in the Mesilla Valley, the last taken by Townsend. 



